SPECIAL FORCES TRANSFORMATION IN FACE OF THE CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS CHALLENGES
Journal Title: Zeszyty Naukowe Akademii Sztuki Wojennej - Year 2014, Vol 2014, Issue 2
Abstract
Historically called unconventional operations are not new phenomenon. Guerilla warfare has a long history of operations (actions) at the tactical level, when the “irregular forces fought against regular one . However, in this context, strength of irregular forces was mostly associated with non-state and quasi-state groups, whereas the regular one with the armed forces which are legitimate policy instrument of governments and states. What is the most striking in terms of special operations in late of twentieth century, it is a remarkable increase in irregular activities conducted by regular forces in unconventional style in order to protect the operational and strategic effects . In the first part of the paper attempted to define special forces as kind of forces and operations (actions) especially in terms of their utility at operational level. Later on an attempt to identify main changes and emerging trends in the tasks and capabilities of special forces, which in last decade have become an obvious tool in responding to crises of last decade. An attempt was also made to analyze innovative modes of action that have emerged in recent operations in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Przemysław Paździorek
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